Jsonnet - Data notation

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Jsonnet is a data notation created in 2014 by Dave Cunningham.

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Download source code:

git clone https://github.com/google/jsonnet

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Jsonnet - The data templating language

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Jsonnet is developed on GitHub and has 6,861 stars
There are at least 1,430 Jsonnet repos on GitHub
Jsonnet is a superset of JSON
Early development of Jsonnet happened in Google
Jsonnet is written in JavaScript, HTML, C++, SVG, Bourne shell, Python, Markdown, Bazel, YAML, CMake, JSON, CSS, Java, C, Bash, starlark, XML, Make, Dockerfile
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 104 users using Jsonnet in 190 repos on GitHub
jsonnet.org was registered in 2015

Example from the web:

// A function that returns an object.
local Person(name='Alice') = {
  name: name,
  welcome: 'Hello ' + name + '!',
};
{
  person1: Person(),
  person2: Person('Bob'),
}

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Comments	✓	// A comment
MultiLine Comments	✓	/* A comment */	/* */
Line Comments	✓	// A comment	//
Semantic Indentation	X